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  • A question about Lintian Perl tags

    From Felix Lechner@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 23:30:01 2021
    Hi,

    Do those two tag descriptions read the same? [1][2]

    Lintian's code distinguishes between both [3] but their names and
    descriptions seem extremely similar to me. What am I missing, please?
    Thanks!

    Kind regards,
    Felix Lechner

    P.S. I rejoined your list (for replies).

    [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/libapp-perl-package-name
    [2] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/library-package-name-for-application
    [3] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/ApplicationNotLibrary.pm#L82-86

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  • From Andrius Merkys@21:1/5 to Felix Lechner on Wed Dec 8 08:00:01 2021
    Hi Felix,

    On 2021-12-08 00:26, Felix Lechner wrote:
    Do those two tag descriptions read the same? [1][2]

    Lintian's code distinguishes between both [3] but their names and descriptions seem extremely similar to me. What am I missing, please?
    Thanks!

    Both of these tags report the same problem, only
    libapp-perl-package-name is Perl-specific, while library-package-name-for-application is generic (from what I read).
    Maybe libapp-perl-package-name could be merged into library-package-name-for-application since Perl-specific tag has only a sentence on Perl library names. Nevertheless retaining the sentence on
    Perl's App:: hierarchy is a good idea. I have stumbled into libapp-perl-package-name recently, and having App:: hierarchy described
    helped me a lot.

    [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/libapp-perl-package-name
    [2] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/library-package-name-for-application
    [3] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/ApplicationNotLibrary.pm#L82-86

    Best,
    Andrius

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  • From Felix Lechner@21:1/5 to merkys@debian.org on Tue Dec 14 20:00:02 2021
    Hi Andrius,

    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 10:53 PM Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> wrote:

    Both of these tags report the same problem

    Maybe libapp-perl-package-name could be merged into library-package-name-for-application

    Thank you for the explanation! The Perl App specific tag has a much
    higher priority (E vs I) and affects only four sources (vs 897) so I
    think I will keep them separate until someone has a better idea.

    Thanks again!

    Kind regards
    Felix Lechner

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  • From Andrius Merkys@21:1/5 to Felix Lechner on Wed Dec 15 17:00:02 2021
    Hi Felix,

    On 2021-12-14 20:20, Felix Lechner wrote:
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 10:53 PM Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> wrote:
    Both of these tags report the same problem

    Maybe libapp-perl-package-name could be merged into
    library-package-name-for-application
    Thank you for the explanation! The Perl App specific tag has a much
    higher priority (E vs I) and affects only four sources (vs 897) so I
    think I will keep them separate until someone has a better idea.

    Oh, right, I did not look at the priority! Surely if priorities are
    different these tags should be kept separate.

    Best,
    Andrius

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